Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — HOW JAMRACH WAS FOOLED. [ARTICLE]

HOW JAMRACH WAS FOOLED.

He Thought He Was Buying the Great" eat Curiosity That Ever Jamrach, the celebrated London dealer in itrange animals, picks up many bargains from the mates and stewards of the vast fleet that sails of steams into the Thames on every tide from the four quarters of the globe. But sometimes he gets picked up himself. A few years ago Rd bought for a few shillings a very rare and there* tore valuable animal from a mate, just in from, say, New Guinea. Presently the mate saw his venture in the “Zoo” . with a great gaping crowd about its cage, and learned that the society rW a small fortune for the curiosity. •TUdx him,” Bays the mate. So the next voyage he returned with the very rarest curiosity ever seen in or out of London docka •‘Hullo,” says Jamrach, fairly excited, “what do you call that now?” “Dunne,” says tb» mate, indifferently. “Looks like a bald squirrel,” says Jamraoh, and thO mate said him not nay, for certainly it did look like the baldest possibS squirrel, and of the queerest color, too, “sort of no color at all,” as Jamrack put it Well in three minutes Jamrach had bought that rare animal for 60 guineas down, and in three hours ha was back on the dock raging at th* mate laughing loud a’ the far end of a long hawser. “You've sold foe a shaved rah” shouted Jamrach. “I just have,” laughed,the uaato ‘ ‘Shfp’l doctor chloroformed him for fto and (hip’s barber shaved him for a glass of beer. Anything else in our Uno this corning?”